Selected Papers 103112

biophysics
Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation

biophysics, cytoskeleton
Intermittent Depolymerization of Actin Filaments Is Caused by Photo-induced Dimerization of Actin Protomers
Deformations Within Moving Kinetochores Reveal Different Sites of Active and Passive Force Generation
Geometry Sensing by Self-organized Protein Patterns

genetics
Chromatin Organization Is a Major Influence on Regional Mutation Rates in Human Cancer Cells

signaling
Noise and Correlations in Parallel Perceptual Decision Making
Protein Modularity, Cooperative Binding, and Hybrid Regulatory States Underlie Transcriptional Network Diversification

signaling, synthetic biology
Adaptive Mutations that Prevent Crosstalk Enable the Expansion of Paralogous Signaling Protein Families

calcium signaling & ER-PM junction
STIM Proteins: Dynamic Calcium Signal Transducers

autophagy
Atg9 Vesicles Are an Important Membrane Source during Early Steps of Autophagosome Formation

cell polarity
Oscillatory Dynamics of Cdc42 GTPase in the Control of Polarized Growth
Class II Formin Targeting to the Cell Cortex by Binding PI(3,5)P2 Is Essential for Polarized Growth
Weakly Nonlinear Analysis of Symmetry Breaking in Cell Polarity Models
Initiation of Cell Wall Pattern by a Rho- and Microtubule-Driven Symmetry Breaking
PIP3 Waves and PTEN Dynamics in the Emergence of Cell Polarity
Designing Synthetic Regulatory Networks Capable of Self-Organizing Cell Polarization

cell biology
A General Theoretical Framework to Infer Endosomal Network Dynamics from Quantitative Image Analysis
Plasma Membrane Reshaping during Endocytosis Is Revealed by Time-Resolved Electron Tomography
The Critical Size Is Set at a Single-cell Level by Growth Rate to Attain Homeostasis and Adaptation
Spatial Ordering of Chromosomes Enhances the Fidelity of Chromosome Partitioning in Cyanobacteria
Mitochondrial Fission, Fusion, and Stress [review]
Emergence of the Mitochondrial Reticulum from Fission and Fusion Dynamics
Interaction Landscape of Membrane-protein Complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

cancer biology
Defining the Mode of Tumour Growth by Clonal Analysis

plant physiology, biophysics
How the Cucumber Tendril Coils and Overwinds

neuroscience
Neural Population Dynamics during Reaching
Theory and Simulation in Neuroscience [review]

ecology, theoretical biology
The Dynamics of Coordinated Group Hunting and Collective Information Transfer among Schooling Prey
Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks
Diversity of Interaction Types and Ecological Community Stability
Spontaneously Broken Neutral Symmetry in an Ecological System
Sensing and Decision-making in Random Search
Emergence of Diversity in a Model Ecosystem
Unifying the Spatial Epidemiology and Molecular Evolution of Emerging Epidemics
Bacterial Quorum Sensing and Metabolic Incentives to Cooperate
Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems
Slime Mold Uses an Externalized Spatial "Memory" to Navigate in Complex Environments

computational biology
Studying and Modelling Dynamic Biological Processes Using Time-series Gene Expression Data [review]

theoretical biology
First Passage Time for Random Walks in Heterogeneous Networks
From Networks to Time Series
Anticipating Critical Transitions

synthetic biology
Synthetic Memory Circuits for Tracking Human Cell Fate
A Design Principle for a Posttranslational Biochemical Oscillator

single-molecule techniques
A Single-Molecule Hershey-Chase Experiment
Force Probing of Individual Molecules Inside the Living Cell Is Now a Reality

imaging
Widely Accessible Method for Superresolution Fluorescence Imaging of Living Systems
Molecular Architecture and Assembly Principles of Vibrio cholerae Biofilms
Super-resolution Fluorescence Imaging of Organelles in Live Cells with Photoswitchable Membrane Probes
Counting Single Photoactivatable Fluorescent Molecules by Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM)